From snowplowing to trail clearing, local organizations take on growing share of public lands maintenance as feds cut back ...

UM climate professor makes space for both in his college classroom, finds humor can be an effective teaching tool ...

Historically a federal day of service with free entry to national parks, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is no longer a free-access day. Oh, and neither is Juneteenth.

Local wildlife filmmaker Casey Anderson placed a camera in a cave in 2015. He recovered it in 2025. Now he reflects on risk, restraint and what a decade's worth of cave footage revealed about Greater ...

Yellowstone National Park officials are asking for public input to weigh plans to rebuild the park’s North Entrance Road, a ...

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The sun was low and this Canada lynx moved through the shadows as he approached the shore of a frozen lake in southern Yukon. Its cousin, the Eurasian lynx, vanished from Great Britain about 1,300 ...

A mountain lion turns to the author’s camera. Many of MacNeil Lyons’ 35 cougar sightings have come in winter when it’s easier to track pawprints and see mountain lion sign. Shadow cat, mountain lion, ...

The U.S. Forest Service plans to phase out the nine regional offices across the country, including the Region 1 Headquarters in Missoula, Montana. Credit: Robert Chaney The U.S. Forest Service will ...

Prepping and burning around Trinity Guard Station during the Trinity Ridge Fire in the Boise National Forest, Idaho. August, 2012. Credit: Kari Greer Ted McClanahan had two major injuries in his ...

Snow piles up along the Gallatin River. Come spring, melting runoff will swell surface waters and seep into groundwater, recharging the aquifer. However, dwindling snowpacks due to climate change make ...

One of the largest national forests in America, the Bridger-Teton is a landscape that rivals most national parks. Forest Service employees are often underpaid and overworked but they do their jobs on ...